Viviani grits her teeth: ‘I’ll be at Scheldeprijs’

Elia Viviani will also be there on Wednesday at the start of the Scheldeprijs, 109th edition of the classic for sprinters from Terneuzen to Schoten (194 km) in Belgium. Viviani himself confirmed this to the Gazzetta. “The blows improve – wrote the 32-year-old from Cofidis from Verona -. I try and run, then I will have time to settle things more calmly in view of the Giro d’Italia. Viviani had fallen last week during the Cross in Flanders: nothing broke, but his knee was hurting him and therefore he had decided to skip the French race in the Loire on Sunday, which the French Demare then won. The Scheldeprijs will be the last race of this first part of the season for Viviani, who will then take a competitive break before preparing for the Giro d’Italia: on Sunday 28 March, in the Cholet GP, the Olympian from Rio in the Omnium was back to victory in the Cholet GP by breaking a fast from the success of 18 months (Tour of Slovakia, September 2019). This year for Viviani then the focus in the summer will shift to the Tokyo Olympics where she will try to defend the title she won in Rio.